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Originally Posted by Barcey
The large retailers (Amazon, Apple, Sony) are happy to keep geo restrictions because it keeps the small retailers out of the competition.
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Your annoyance is a little misdirected. Sony and Apple - yes, they have georestricted sites - but Amazon do not. Anyone can buy eBooks from Amazon.com; if there are georestrictions on Amazon books they are specified by the supplier of the book, not by Amazon.
The ultimate blame has to be assigned to authors for signing country-specific distribution contracts, rather than assigning world-wide rights to a single publisher. If a publisher only has distribution rights for a specific country or region, then they cannot legally sell outside that.